- Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
- An online community similar to Twitter, but designed for use in education - - Dress up photos with interesting frames and your own captions, then save and share
- Type in text, it generates a tag cloud you can print on t-shirts
- Allows threaded brainstorming
- Students can select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate their own, original stories. Diacritical marks must be cut and pasted in (via Word, for example)
Deutsch 21 - Create curriculum projects across schools
Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process
- Create PDFs for free (download the program, the select print, change the printer to CutePDF, and voila!)
- Printable CEO Series contains printable tracking sheets to improve productivity
- Save your bookmarks (a.k.a. "favorites") online & then access them from any computer
- Same as Delicious, but on steroids (allows highlighting and archiving of webpages, social interaction, etc.)
- Propose a classroom project. Donors can donate to your cause.
- Design invitations and send them via e-mail. See who has RSVP'd
- Online fundraising . . . quickly create a webpage regarding the cause of your choice, send the link to associates, clients, family, and friends, and track your progress
- "Write" on the PDFs you save
- Online fundraising: Solicit pledges, people pay via credit card or Paypal, but accounts are not charged until at least $1,000 is raised. Project does not have to be service-oriented
- Make information come to you. Set up the alert and it searches the web and delivers updates to you
- Collaborate with other members of your department or school and easily share information without e-mail
- Search for only scholarly articles - Free screencasting (requires free download)
- - Free file conversion from one format to another
- Set up meetings, see a grid of people's availability
- Online Stopwatch - Use this to monitor group work, to count down how much "English Break Time" is left, etc.
- You select the artist or genre and it generates a station that plays music similar to the style of the selected artist
- Search for songs, save them, and then make the playlist available to your students by giving them the direct link or embedding it into a wiki or website
- Edit photos online for free
- Quickly post a question and watch as the votes change while students text their answers to the poll. You can also download your poll as a PowerPoint slide to include in a presentation
- Make a "to do" list, it helps you prioritize your tasks through a series of forced choices
- Leave yourself a 60-second message. It transcribes it and sends the text and audio file to your e-mail and to your online account
- Edit existing rubrics or create your own
- Great PowerPoint tools for soliciting feedback from your audience (including several that integrate with Twitter)
- Upload documents to share with others
Send Tab URLs Firefox Extension
- Send a list of links from open tabs to yourself or others in an e-mail message with this Firefox extension
- Hold videoconferences with colleagues from around the world for free
- Find copyright safe photos for free that you can use in student projects as well as published or web-based materials
- A great tool for keeping up with the latest developments in your chosen fields
- Upload up to 500MB of video, then bookmark particular segments within it or allow others to comment on it
Wikispaces - Use a wiki to remove writer's block--allows you to make continual changes to your text, to move things around, and to keep a constant outline of the various sections of your writing in view via the navigation bar. If you cut a section, but think you might want to use it later? No problem--just make a "parts pile" page, paste the deleted section in, and find it later. Also removes the "Word crashed and I lost everything" phenomenon. Everything you type is captured in the history (as long as you save frequently), and you can always revert to a previous version of the paper if you change your mind midstream. GREAT for collaborative authoring as well.
Creativity Tools
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Create Your Scenario - Generates simple playscripts - especially good for elementary
My Brochure Maker - Brochures
Wallwisher - Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall"
Webquest Generator
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